Security footage from 1933 Brewing Company from Friday. Four 1,000-pound fermenters were taken from the brewery's property Friday night and Saturday morning. / Courtesy of 1933 Brewing Company

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According to Cody Pisacka, co-owner of the yet-to-open 1933 Brewing Company at 4025-C S. Mason St., the fermenters were moved onto the construction site Jan. 7. They had been kept covered until Thursday.

“I wasn’t so worried about them,” Pisacka said. “I guess I should have been more. It’s rather brazen.”

Pisacka said he and neighboring businesses have surveillance footage of two vehicles that carried the five-barrel fermenters, worth about $2,500 to $3,000 a piece, from where they were stored and tied to a construction box behind the building.

Around 7:30 p.m. Pisacka said the first vehicle, a hard-top Jeep Wrangler, carried off the first fermenter on a “homemade” trailer. The Jeep returned about 45 minutes later for the second fermenter. Then, just before 6 a.m. Saturday, a Chevrolet S-10 truck came for the remaining two fermenters.

“They came prepared. They had to have just tipped it into the trailer and drove off,” Pisacka said.

Pisacka was showing his parents around the brewery Saturday when he walked outside and noticed the missing fermenters.

“I could not fathom that,” he said. “I walked out the back, and I thought, well that ain’t right. I made a few phone calls to make sure there wasn’t a colossal mistake before I called the police.”

He said he is also notifying salvage yards “from here to Colorado Springs.”

The missing fermenters aren’t expected to affect the brewery’s schedule.

“We’ll hopefully be opening by the first week of March, brewing by the first week of February,” Pisacka said.

Inside the brewery are three brand-new, 10-barrel fermenters that Pisacka and his partner Jimmy Vanderweide will use for their primary brewing. He said the old five-barrel fermenters were going to be used for test batches.

“These are some really old-style box fermenters, very rare. If they try to sell them, we’re going to know immediately where they came from,” he said.

He asked that anyone with information about the theft contact Fort Collins police regarding case number 14-786.